Teaching K-12 Professional Development Courses

Do you have a course or workshop that you want to provide to local educators?

If you aren’t yet an approved instructor, you can begin that process by first becoming approved by Boise State University. Completing the Instructor Approval Form and the New Course Setup Form at the same time enables you to seek all of your requisite approvals simultaneously and will shorten the timeline for getting your course set up to receive registrations.

FAQs – Learn how you can help provide educators with tools and skill sets to help students in the classrooms

All new professional development instructors must be approved by the Boise State University Graduate College, as well as the College of Education. Instructors are expected to have an advanced degree (MA or higher) in their field, and be able to document significant professional experience.

It meets with the quality standards to be granted approval through a University academic department

While there are no absolute guidelines for making this determination, courses are expected to directly impact student outcomes by equipping and enhancing teacher skills and educational tools. Participant learning outcomes should be easily identifiable and bolster classroom instruction abilities.

Assuming that you (or the person to be acting as the primary instructor for the course) have been approved as a Boise State University instructor, you need only submit the Professional Development Course Setup Form for review and approval by the appropriate academic department.

The form must contain dates and times for your course, since these are used to document the minimum 15 contact hours per credit. It is strongly advised that you submit as much supplemental material as is possible regarding the course (i.e. itineraries, syllabi, course outlines, etc.) as these provide the respective approvers with a better base of information to review.

We ask that you attach supplemental documentation such as a course syllabus, schedule of activities/sessions, course materials, and/or any other items that will give a clearer picture of course structure and educational goals. There is an attachment button at the bottom of the form that will allow you to upload files.

The form must contain dates and times for your course, since these are used to document the minimum 15 contact hours per credit. It is strongly advised that you submit as much supplemental material as is possible regarding the course (i.e. itineraries, syllabi, course outlines, etc.) as these provide the respective approvers with a better base of information to review.

You will have the opportunity when completing the Course Setup Form to indicate that some or all registrants will have credit fees paid for by your organization. It’s imperative that you include current email information for the PO contact person, as all invoices are dispatched via email. The notifications that you receive to be forwarded on to participants will convey the waiver of their fees. They will be able to waive the standard credit fee at the time of registration. Invoices are typically dispatched within two (2) weeks of the course end date.

After your course has been approved, you will receive two emails from us.

The first will contain information regarding your role as the instructor and steps for accessing our system.

In a second email immediately following, you will receive a registration notification and link that can be distributed to potential registrants. We recommend simply forwarding this email on to your participants, but the method of distribution is entirely up to you (i.e. posting the link on a website accessible to participants). This second email contains information regarding transcript requests, Extended Studies contact information and more.

If you indicated on the Course Setup Form that you’d like us to publish the course to our website, registration information will be published there as well.

Yes. In addition to receiving the credit registration link to be forwarded to potential registrants, you will receive a link and login credentials for an instructor login that will allow you to view a current roster of individuals in your course who have registered for credit.

If you have received an email notification from Extended Studies Central Registration or the program coordinator indicating that registrations are complete for the course you are instructing and prompting you to post grades, follow the link contained therein, or view detailed instructions for posting grades.

If you have not received this notification, or are unsure if your roster is prepared for you to post, please call Extended Studies at (208) 426-1709.

While posting grades, if you notice students who should not be on the roster, or conversely, students who are missing, do not proceed with submitting grades. Instead contact Extended Studies immediately to rectify the problem.

Once the credit registration deadline for your course has passed, you’ll receive an email from Extended Studies Customer Services prompting you to log in and post grades. We ask that you make every effort to post your grades as quickly as possible (out of consideration for those who registered). This should be no later than one week after the course end date.

If you require additional time, please notify the program coordinator as soon as possible. Boise State’s courses are still set up by seasonal term (spring, summer, or fall), so in some cases, a course that ends very near to the end of a given term will have a shortened timeline for posting grades.